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It is time to ABOLISH THE CHARTER and go to the Ohio
Revised Code for a Government that serves the citizens,
not the mobsters and the greedy bankers, developers,
and shyster atttorneys our present charter serves so well.
We Americans deserve an honest government. We have a
God-given right to a government of people elected by the
people to serve the people.
Under our old (1928) corrupted and patched up City Charter
we are being" provided only with "government of the people."
"Government of the people" is nothing new; Adolph Hitler provided
"government of the people" in Germany in the 1930s. He wasn't having
any citizens making any decisions for him; he was the government
"of the people." Fidel Castro is the "government of the people" in Cuba.
An organized racketeer group is the actual "government of the
people" in Portsmouth.
Here in Portsmouth unelected greedy racketeer leaders like Banker/Attorney
C. Clayton Johnson, and Real-Estate-Predator Neal Hatcher control the
membership of the City Council so they will have a minimum of four
councilmen to vote like they are told to vote. Hatcher and Johnson are
"the government of the people" in Portsmouth.
Control of Council has meant fortunes in tax breaks for a few persons in
town while the 'rest of us' pay our taxes and we also pay for the wealthy
ones who pay nothing. Controlling council means many wealthy ones
can get by without paying a fair share of city expenses. For example,
two of the town's richest businessmen were given a break on taxes in 2011.
Property Tax Abatements of Two Million, Six Hundred Thousand Dollars
($2.6000.000) were granted. Jeff Albrecht, a big time operator who ran into
diffiulty recently in a land acquisition upriver won't have to pay a dime in taxes
for the next twelve (12) years on the motel across from City Hall he recently
rehabbed. Nothing is added to the city by this remodel. There is no mention
of additional motel employees that might aid the city with increased income tax.
This appears to simply be another gift to good Ole' Motel Jeff from the city officials.
Why? We need the tax money. Will city officials receive free drinks at Jeff's Bar?
Or, perhaps they can be rewarded with extra services and a free room for
awhile or for a night when they need one? Someone should get something
beside just wealthy Jeff. The 'rest of us' are not gettting anything except
paying more taxes. Jeff Albrecht is getting a free ride on your shoulders. You are
carrying your tax load and his share also. And of course Neal Hatcher
was given a Six-Hundred Thousand Dollar ($600,000) Tax
Abatement for the next twelve (12) years on a new building
just across Seventh Street from the Post Office.
Under our present City Charter four council votes is all that is needed to
pass resolutions, sell/lease property, pass ordinances to okay secret
backroon contracts to purchase overpriced old department stores from
their criminal friends (for example Martings Two Million Dollar Grand Theft)
or in the same way, only four council member votes are needed to sell or
lease valuable city property to their friends for almost nothing,
fire-sale prices.
All you need to get criminally wealthy under the
City Charter is control of four corrupted councilman. That's right; four
city councilmen voting the way you say is the key to the city vault.
As Ex-Mayor Jim Kalb often publicy said,"There is a lot of money to be
made in real estate." This is true at Portsmouth City Hall but you must have
at least four councilmen on the Devil's payroll to be sure your real estate
deals go through so you can properly profit. Jim Kalb knew what he was
talking about.
The appointment of new councilmen is necessary when council members get
convicted and hauled off to prison; or some councilmen simply move away;
or some of them sicken of being dishonest; and others tire of being told
before Council meetings how they are going to vote. Most amusing of all
departing councilmen are the ones who resign or retire quickly from
Council after spouse or teen-age children see Daddy out on
council night in the wrong place with the wrong person and catch
on that the late, late hours Councilman is getting home from meetings
is not because of long interviews with the news media.
Portsmouth City Council has six councilmen, one for each ward. Four votes
are needed to approve the passage of an ordinance or resolution.
With less than four votes the proposed action does not pass;
four votes are needed.
IN THE COUNCIL MEETING OF 23 January, 2012 three councilmen voted
to deny citizens the right to vote on a question of continuing with 44 police
and firemen. Two of the three councilmen who denied citizens the right
to vote on the issue were appointed to the council by the "criminal powers"
who have controlled the council for over three decades. Had either one
of the two appointed councilmen voted "for the people" the citizens
would have had a vote on the issue.
On the present council are four men who gained their council seat by
election. These two men, James Rich Saddler, Second Ward and John
R. Haas got on Council by appointment.
On a proposal to allow citizens to vote yes or no on a plan to alter the 44
minimum number of fireman and police in this city three of the elected
councilmen voted YES. These men were Steve Sturgell, Jim Kalb, and
Kevin Johnson. These three men were all elected to council. Three our of
four of these elected men voted to allow citizens to vote on this issue.
On the negative side elected Third Ward Councilman Nicholas Basham and
both of the appointees, John Haas and Rich Saddler voted against allowing
citizens to vote. And so it is, the appointed councilmen almost always
have less council knowledge and usully are inferior to the elected men.
Probably no one expected anything better from Nicholas Basham who has been running a
beer joint and is known as a crude man who has bad public manners and talks mean to ladies
much like Basham's understudy John R. Haas does.
But "Rich" Saddler was a disappointment to those who believed in him. And now, citizens will
know how such a little value "Rich" Saddler, John Haas, and Nicholas Basham place on an
American citizens' right to vote.
“Government by the people and for the people” has perished “from the earth” here at home
in Portsmouth, Ohio while we have men and women from our area, in the air, on the seas and
on far-off battlefields fighting, giving their time and skill, giving their blood, giving their lives to
help the people there to have the right to vote while citizens here at home are denied a vote.
Lord, give us the wisdom, the courage, and the power to shrug off the infernal Charter under
which we are suffering and join Freedom here in America through government under
the Revised Code of the State of Ohio. Written by Austin Leedom on February 01, 2012
LINK: READ FRANK LEWIS ARTICLE
http://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/view/full_story/17279896/article-
Council-kills-deal-with-firefighters?instance=lead_story_left_column
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How big is your water bill? Did you get an abatement on your property
tax for twelve years? Were your taxes lowered? Was your street paved?
Do the sewers still stink? Did you see the street sweeper last year?
Would you support eliminating the CITY CHARTER and returning to a
government of Democracy with the OHIO REVISED CODE?
Do you favor a RECALL OF THE MAYOR? Many citizens do, as he continues
to scourge the needy, poverty ridden citizens with massive water bill
increases (Eighteen percent increase on water and sewer)
while giving special lowered water bill considerations to the criminally rich?
David Malone was un-elected Mayor of Portsmouth for the entire year of 2011.
He received $59,000 plus as Mayor and a $3,000 Bonus at Christmas time.
When David took office in December 2010; the city was in effect bankrupt,
and it was and is in that condition, because of bad budget legislation David Malone,
Jim Kalb and three appointed councilmen, Mike Mearan, Jerrold Albrecht and
John Rudolph Haas voted into law in February 2009.
Mayor David was generous with NEAL HATCHER AND JEFF ALBRECHT,
two of the wealthiest, avaricious, immoral rascals in the area, by furtively
giving them TAX ABATEMENTS FOR TWELVE YEARS.
A total of Two Million, Six-Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,600,000) to them
in TAX ABATEMENTS.FOR THE NEXT TWELVE YEARS was given by Mayor Malone.
A back-room abatement break of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) to
Jeff Albrecht on his rehabbed motel across the street from City Hall and
a Six-Hundred-Thousand-Dollar break to Neal Hatcher on a new building
at 915-919 Seventh (7th) Street.
Malone also donated One Thousand Dollars ($1,000 ) to the police and fire unions
to support their income tax raise.
Mayor David Malone also gave big-time water users a massive break on prices.
To balance out this lowered rate for the big-time wealthy users, he was forced
to give the “rest of us” an Eighteen Percent increase in our water and sewer bills.
We are paying more so the fat-cat Mafia-type controllers of this evil city can pay less.
Mayor Malone is taking care of Neal Hatcher, Jeff Albrecht and C. Clayton Johnson.
What did Mayor David Malone do for you?
Written by Austin Leedom on Thursday, January, 2012
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LADY HIRED FOR ENGINEERING WHILE
MAYOR TALKS LAY-OFFS
NEW HIRE AT CITY HALL WAS MAYOR JAMES D. KALBS ABLE ASSISTANT
Crystal Weghorst was known as a personable, hard working assistant to
Mayor Kalb for over three years. She left the Mayor’s Office when Jim Kalb
finished third in a two man race for re-election November, 2009.
(Mayor Elect Jane Murray finished first, school administrator Jerry Skiver finished second,
and Jim Kalb was in third place and David Malone somewhere below Kalb in votes.)
In the Mayor’s Office Ms. Weghorst learned procedures and rules quickly and
never refused or hesitated to deliver copies of public records asked for under
the Freedom of Information Act.
She was always pleasant and easy to get along with as the Mayor’s Assistant.
According to First Ward Councilman Kevin Johnson, she has been wrongfully
appointed by City Mayor David Malone to an Engineering position that is beyond
her education.
This appointment is not surprising to the many who remember Crystal Weghorst’s
work in the Mayor’s Office. She was de facto Mayor much of the time when
Mayor Kalb was on lengthy vacations in the Southland where he attended
auto race tracks and actually raced on many tracks, including one big run at
the Charlotte, North Carolina track. In Mayor Kalb’s many long absences
Crystal Weghorst ran the Mayor’s Office and ran it well.
Councilman Kevin Johnson has a proper complaint and we are blessed to have
an aware, knowledgeable and vocal person such as Kevin Johnson in our city council.
Crystal Weghorst is not the main subject to be concerned with here. The appointee
is not the problem; it is the appointer.
Mayor Malone has been Mayor over one year now and is beginning to believe,
as many politicians tend to do, that he is not merely mortal ,but has been chosen
and placed in Office by the Almighty Lord as a Divine Ruler.
To you citizens who attend city meetings, please note: When Mayor Malone speaks
please observe that he has arrived at the point where he now actually has come
to believe that all the words he speaks are actually the truth.
Inside information is Crystal Weghorst did much of the brain-work during the
Jim Kalb Administration, including negotiating contracts and in preparing the
annual budgets which were to be presented to the Council on or before
November the Fifteenth, each year.
Mayor Kalb year after year was late in producing the budget and claimed the Auditor,
Trent Williams ,did not have the financial figures available so he, the Mayor,
could not prepare the budget by the deadline. (It was all Trent’s fault. Trent can't count.)
In last meeting in February, 2009, Mayor Jim Kalb brought a proposed budget
to the City Council, and Mayor Kalb explained as he had, for year after year,
that he was late because of the Auditor and this was the only chance to
pass the budget he was presenting.
Repeatedly, year after year, Kalb didn’t make the budget available until the
last meeting in February; he then claimed it was late and must be treated as
an emergency. Councilmen were not given time to read the budget and
citizens never found out what was in it until it had been passed into law.
He explained, if the budget were not passed by council as an emergency
meeting that night, right now, the city workers would not get paid the
following week. Kalb said there was no time for presenting this budget
to the citizens and to the council for their three readings as the law decrees.
This was the same old dirty government budget game Kalb planned and played
every year.
This time, with his re-election coming up only nine months away, Mayor Kalb
asked that all employees in the city be given a three per cent raise for three years
in a row, years 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Appointed Councilmen Jerrold Albrecht, Mike Mearan, John Haas and elected
Councilman David Malone voted for the big deficit. Mayor Kalb had written
himself in for the three per cent raises for three consecutive year raises and
also Mayor Kalb had included the City Solicitor Mike Jones and
Auditor Trent Williams. Solicitor Jones joined in support of the budget and
Auditor Trent Williams hesitated saying he did not believe there would be
enough money coming in to pay for the raises. Auditor Trent finally agreed
to go along with the bad budget after it was agreed that a new Luxury SUV
Auto was to be purchased by the City for the personal use of Auditor Trent Williams.
There was no time for the councilmen to even read the budget. But Sixth Ward
Councilman Richard Noel and Second Ward Councilman Bob Mollette did read
enough to learn that the proposed pay raises of three per cent for every city
employee for the years of 2009, 2010 and 2011 would put the city into deep deficit.
These two councilmen refused to sign a deficit budget.
(Auditor Trent Williams did take delivery of his luxury auto on the 16th of December 2009
near the end of the year when it was clear that the City was more than a
Million Dollars behind in being able to pay their bills.
THEY HAD A MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT THAT WAS GOING TO BE INCREASED BY
AT LEAST AN EXTRA MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR, EACH YEAR, FOR TWO MORE YEARS.)
Austin Leedom
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HORNER IS A PHONEY!
Horner played off sick twice when he was to testify before
Retired Fed investigators who found Police Chief Chuckie Horner
guilty of crimes against his officers,citizens and Shawnee Sentinel
personnel.
news below about the local newspaper going bad again
Latest Portsmouth Daily Times (PDT) tyrant arrives in Portsmouth;
he has accepted assignment to stop citizens from bad-mouthing
the evil city and county government officials. This is not new:
The Hatcher/Johnson RICO Ring has making pay-offs to PDT
top local managers, and others for years. This is another attractive
Portsmouth Ohio tradition.
The new Daily Times manager is doing what he has been paid to do.
In his editorial he commands us to stop bad mouthing, "it is time
to change the game."
He is right; if you are to control the citizens, their speech must
be limited. This is not new; Adolph Hitler knew this.
If the editorial in the Portsmouth Daily Times (PDT) on Wednesday, December 28,
2011 is a fair example of the failings of new General Manager Michael Messerly, he
may not be in town very long. His writing indicates he makes decisions without knowledge
and writes without wisdom.
The already bankrupt Heartland Publications can expect a new drop in circulation
and income here in Portsmouth. And, we can expect very little worthwhile from
Messerly's writings except more reasons not to buy the Portsmouth Daily Times.
The people of Portsmouth and Scioto County are righteously bad mouthing their
governments; they have been and are victims of both the City and County
governments. Despite many tax increases, water rate raises, and other financial
burdens on the citizens, both the County and the City are nearing bankruptcy.
The Portsmouth Police Chief and the Scioto County Sheriff both for many years
have been wasteful; the County has been under fiscal emergency restraints from
the State Auditor for three years and the City of Portsmouth is under a fiscal watch,
pending further State investigation.
Lack of law enforcement is a crime itself in this city and county. Most officers in both
City and County are honest and responsible. The County Sheriff and the Chief of Police
are the opposite. Lack of honest and proper enforcement for the past eight years has
made news across the continent. The Chief of Police and the County Sheriff have been so
ineffective that this area is known as one of the worst drug crime spots in America.
That is why federal and state law enforcement moved into this area in force and took
charge of the closing of the deadly pain pill-mills. The area is being cleaned up by the
federal and state officers; not because of our Sheriff and Chief of Police. As Mr. Messerly
might say, "it is time to change the game." It is time to change out our Sheriff and
the Portsmouth Chief of Police.
The citizens have other good and proper causes to bad-mouth our local officials.
The citizens have been and are being robbed by scoundrel City Council members
in league with big-time thieves who are escaping prison time.
In May 2002, five of the six members of Portsmouth City Council voted to purchase a
decrepit old department store building for $1,999,000 from C. Clayton Johnson.
This was a crooked deal all the way in conspiracy with a crooked Mayor and some
corrupt council people. This was an unadvertised, backroom, secretive action that
ignored the law and ws ruled illegal by the Common Pleas Court. C. Clayton Johson
operating as the Marting Foundation, one of his shell corporations, still has our Two
Million Dollars.
Outraged citizens were determined not to allow themselves to be robbed by the
City Council persons again as they were in the Martings Grand Theft in 2002.
In the summer of 2008 citizens gathered signatures on initiative petitions to
amend the City Charter
In a special election on February 02, 2009 citizens approved an initiative petition
for an amendment to City Charter to force City Council to be more accountable in
spending by making expenditures of amounts of $100,000 or more for buildings
or building rehab, subject to approval by a vote of the people.
City Council opposed this petition for citizens' participation in large expenditures and for
greater accountability by the City Council. The citizens won the election. The vote was close.
The City Hall gang cried, their criminal guidance directors moaned and wailed.
Passage of this democratic measure would cause much difficulty for the City officials
to continue to secretly loot the City Treasury as they had done in the Martings Building
robbery and in many other thefts.
The Portsmouth Daily Times, the mouthpiece for the hidden criminal government gang,
came to the rescue with an editorial from JASON LOVINS who advocated that
Democracy be set aside and the election be overturned.
A petition against the election , supported by most council members and the city solicitor
was filed in Common Pleas Court and the election was overturned.
As advocated by Portsmouth Daily Times (PDT) Editor JASON LOVINS, Democracy was set aside.
There were happy times in City Hall. The sun was shining for the City Hall Gang again
and crimes of theft and other felonious acts against the citizens could continue as usual.
All was well with City Hall; the officials and their controllers were smiling with their victory
for dictatorship. But, there were gathering clouds of deep darkness developing in the
evil conspirators skies; the small remaining element of Democracy led by citzens
would not die without a battle.
The City Hall Gangsters had a battery of big-name, over-priced shyster attorneys working
this overthrow of Democracy to help maintain money control of city funds for the gang
and the citizens’ own elected city attorney was working against the citizens.
The citizens did not have even one attorney to battle the shysters, and no money to hire one.
This was delightful for the Gangster Group and they rejoiced in their victory
over American Democracy that the Portsmouth Daily Times had supported editorially.
Without an attorney, the citizens appeared to be helpless and enemies of the citizens
were laughing at them, but their fun would not last .
One lone petitioner, Larry Essman, decided "it was time to change the game."
He prepared an appeal of the local court ruling and filed it with the Ohio Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court honored Mr. Essman appeal with a decision in his favor.
The Citizen, Mr.Larry Essman, a Certified Public Accountant, won the appeal.
The Supreme Court ruled the election stands, the citizens of Portsmouth won;
they won without an attorney. Larry Essman alone, with no law school, and no legal training
beat the likes of high-priced Attorneys George L. Davis III, Stephen Rodeheffer and City
Solicitor Mike Jones.
The initiative amendment by the people stands as law and is known as the
ESSMAN AMENDMENT. some people call it the MARTINGS AMENDMENT in memory of
the May 2002 Grand Theft of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) from our City Treasury by
C. Clayton Johnson and his band of organized criminals in the MARTINGS SCANDAL.
DEMOCRACY IS ALIVE IN PORTSMOUTH. THANK GOD; THIS IS AMERICA.
LARRY ESSMAN'S FAITH, COURAGE, AND HARD WORK HAS PRESERVED ONE OF OUR
MOST PRECIOUS GOD-GIVEN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
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(We suspect that local unethical people in power have already
introduced Mr. Messerly to the Glory of the truthfulness of feeling superior to
ordinary mortals when you have a pocketful of new, crisp hundred dollar bills.
We common people call these Ben Franklin One Hundred Dollar bills “Bens”
here in this area.)
PDT General Manager Michael Messerly wants you people to shut up
In the next to last paragraph of his editorial/propaganda on page A4 of the PDT
on 28 December 2011, Michael Messerly issued commands to us,
"Bad mouthing our own community is sport here, and for those of you who do it, get over it,
because it is time to change the game.”
Father Messerly is right, it is time to change the game. Messerly is well named.
He came on board here after Frank Lewis, Wayne Allen, Ryan Scott Ottney and others
have done superb work in returning many readers, who were, in the long, long ago, regular
customers, but had quit reading the Daily Times when they learned that the Times was
controlled by unethical /criminal local interests.
These reporters have given great news coverage, have been ambassadors of good will,
have re-gained much of the lost respect and lost circulation despite Editors such as
Jason Lovins who supports dictatorship over Democracy, and the new Michael Messerly
who comes across as ignorant, hostile, paid-off, and oppressive.
It is "time to change the game."
Now, citizens, is the "time to change." Change Michael Messerly out.
Renew your pledges to never again buy a Portsmouth Daily Times,.........
until Michael Messerly is gone.
Cut the circulation of the Portsmouth Daily Times here and Heartland Publications
will cut Manager Michael Messerly from their payroll here.
Heartland Publications would do much better with an honest, knowledgeable,
local newspaper man.
Frank Lewis would be a big, big winner for the Times working in management,
if he would take the job.
Written by Austin Leedom on Thursday, December 29, 2011
CITY COUNCIL MEETING 6:00 P.M. TUESDAY 27 DECEMBER, 2011
THIRD FLOOR, CITY HALL. OUR PAID FOR, CORRUPTED COUNCIL WILL GIVE AWAY
A PUBLIC ALLEY NEAR ESPLANADE ON GALLIA STREET TO SUPER- WEALTHY
DOWNTOWN BUSINESS PEOPLE WHO ARE "MOBBED UP" WITH LOCAL GANG.
As Jim Kalb said when he took over the Mayor's Office from recalled Mayor Greg Bauer
in July 2004, "There's a lot of BIG money to be made in real estate." During Kalb's too
lengthy administration, Mayor Kalb did help people who sold real estate to the city at exalted
prices make big money; he also sold our city real estate property in backroom deals at f
ire-sale prices and made it profitable for the ones he sold to.
Back-room un-bid, unpublished contracts can be very profitable for the person
representing the city. The standard fee is ten percent (10%). There are estimates that
former Mayor Kalb came out of the Mayor's Office a very wealthy man.
